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KnightOfCups wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 5:06 am

(Not reading all the thread, but did read this)

I’m really super into the preoccupation with honesty. It’s something I’ve used in Changeling characters and it was /really cool/ to see it played out in a villain, in an honestly fairly uncompromising way. They didn’t try to make him /not/ a villain. His motivation wasn’t even really portrayed as /good/ in the “he just took it too far” way.

I think that’s why I found that episode so interesting. I am fascinated by characters you want the truth, at all costs, because a burning world without lies is still a better world to them.

I’m realizing I have a really interesting relationship with Truth both as a person and as a creator, and I wish this had more going into that storyline because of it

I'd like that for a different story* and done differently**

*I'm biased against a change in Dee's motives because of how effective the original was and just because I enjoy that kind of story, but also I don't think that change suits the broader Sandman story being told. It doesn't connect to anything, which is a weird thing to happen when the adaptation has been working so hard to connect previously-unconnected things to make the story more cohesive

**My opinion is that the change wasn't done very well; to my above point, they should have tied it in better, thematically, to the rest of the series, but also I don't feel like they tied it in to the episode it was a part of very well, either. What does 'honesty' have to do with panda sex, for example? It would have been stronger if they had eliminated the original motive and focused on honesty (which would have caused an uproar in the fandom, I'm sure, so I understand why they didn't), or if they'd stuck with the original motive and done away with the honesty concept. In short: I do have something against the change on its face, but if I didn't my opinion would be that it was done shallowly and could have been done better

I'm continuing with the pomodoro thing and it's not making me particularly more productive, but it is making it easier to avoid getting stuck just browsing the internet for hours at a time, which is what I actually want, in the end

Today I recorded some Arcadia, and I want to do more language-y stuff, and also I need to shave and take a shower. The joints are hurtin', so I won't be doing any physical chores, hopefully I'll have spoons for that tomorrow

mek wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:50 pm

My opinion is that the change wasn't done very well

That makes sense, and I am in agreement with "wasn't done very well" or at least "could have been done better" even without knowing what was /changed./

That is, the /idea/ here is fascinating to me, and I want more of it. But I don't necessarily want more of it in /this./

Fully intended to wake up at a decent hour today and get things done, but had a very nasty bout of insomnia last night, so I'm definitely going back to sleep now

I'm just grateful the cat let me sleep in even this late

If I were smart I could have seen this coming and planned accordingly, because the kind of headspace I get into when I'm of a mind to do language stuff is also prone to insomnia. They just go together for me

With the heat, I might need to be planning to stay up later and do garage work at night, though, anyway, instead of during the day. Not like four in the morning late, but later

I've learned that some of the "changes" to Sandman 2022 aren't changes at all, but incorporations of things from Sandman: Overture, a sort of prequel/inquel comic that came out in 2013, which I intended to read and then forgot about. I'll have to get around to that in my overall reread, which I'm still not sure if I'll continue now or wait and do it as the series comes out. I wish I knew the timeline for the second season airing, but it hasn't actually been confirmed to have a second season at all yet. Unlikely it won't, given how popular it is, it's been #1 in I think 80 countries? It's doing super well, at any rate. Touch wood. But it took them two years to make the first season, and if they didn't know they were getting a second then they haven't been working on making more of it, so it's possible it'll take two years to make season 2. But how much of work on season 1 was stuff that they can use going into further seasons, that they won't have to do again (like casting majority of the characters)?

This is the problem with binge-watching culture. Don't get me wrong, in this case in particular I'm glad to have been able to devour it all at once, but if it had aired weekly they could be airing it while making it, and it could get renewed before the season is done so they could start working on the second season while the first season is still going, and then it will be less time between the season finale and the season premiere, like in The Good Ol' Days. Genuinely, I think the way things are done now is awful for maintaining audience interest -- how many people will watch Sandman Season 1 because of the hype, and then forget about it by the time Season 2 comes out and not get around to watching it? No wonder Netflix thinks viewership drops off after season 2 and refuses to greenlight things for third seasons.

Hopefully hopefully hopefully they get to make the whole thing.

I have spent what of today I wasn't sleeping zoning out on the internet while listening to The Mountain Goats.

Went swimming for about half an hour without sunglasses and now I'm getting a headache

mek wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:28 am

Went swimming for about half an hour without sunglasses and now I'm getting a headache

No : (